Equipment balance

This mod balances the attributes of equipment so that equipment has a chance to drop with attributes. Legendary equipment is identified when it can be discovered.

Gear Balance

🎮 **Welcome to the world of equipment balancing! ** This mod aims to completely adjust the equipment system in "Hogwarts Legacy" to bring a more strategic and challenging game experience.

✨ Core changes

This mod rebalances gear. It reduces the maximum strength stat from **450** to **420** and adjusts the ratio between damage output and damage taken. This will **increase the importance** of equipment properties. Additionally, some other adjustments have been made to equipment vendors and drops.

Before installing this mod, equipment traits were just "icing on the cake", making them overly powerful and unnecessary due to the already high base damage. Now, the damage you deal will be reduced, making the equipment trait even more necessary in the game. (Actually, I'm working on a balance adjustment for them too)

It also changes the situation where medium-sized enemies can kill you in almost two hits. (I'm sure this needs some tweaking, suggestions are always welcome!) It used to be so annoying to have to drink a healing potion after being hit twice by a small enemy. (But if you're a master of armored spells or a dodge champion, you probably won't notice this 😉 )

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⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION

**This mod will not change the equipment you already own! ** You must sell your high-level gear and then **buy or pick up new gear**.

If you remove this mod, you'll still keep your balanced gear, so don't worry! Just kidding 😄 In the "Miscellaneous Files" there is a mod that allows you to repurchase your gear for **1 galleons** and upgrade it for free after uninstalling this mod. (Or buy your new balanced gear for free)

**So, feel free to sell your armor! **

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📊 Specific changes

**Power Level Change**

• ⬇️ Maximum possible strength attribute reduced from 450 to 420
• ⚖️ Changed the balance of offense and defense
• ⬇️ Damage reduced, defense slightly improved
• 🎯 Now you really need your equipment traits
• 📈 Damage calculation example at bottom, or see the table in the image for more details

**Drop changes**

• 🎁 Equipment now has a chance to drop with attributes!
• **Normal**: 1% (actually none, but maybe you're in luck 😉)
• **RARE**: 40%
• **Epic**: 25%
• **Legendary**: 15%
• ✅ Legendary equipment can be identified when it is dropped
• 📈 Slightly increased the drop probability of identified epic equipment

**Merchant Change**

• 📦 Inventory increase
• 💰 Price may increase in next update

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🔗 Module series

**This mod is part 3 of my balancing mod series. They can be used individually, but I recommend comparing them. **

• Main mission level balancing - for a better experience in the main plot
• Gameplay Balancing - Balance potions, plants and beasts, as well as some other game mechanics. Minor Room of Requirement upgrades and merchant inventory (potions, beasts, plants)
• Spell Balance - Complete Spell Balance
• Complete enemy balancing - more enemies, more aggressive enemies, difficulty setting changes

**More to come...**

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🛠️ Installation Guide

• **Download**: Download the file via Vortex or manually
• **Unzip**: Unzip the .zip file
• **Copy**: Copy the files to the directory `\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Content\Paks\~mods`
• **Create Folder**: If you don’t have a `~mods` folder, please create one
• **Merge Conflict**: If you want to use other mods that also modify `PhoenixShipData.sqlite`, please use Hogwarts Mod Merger

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📐 Calculation example

**Results of attribute changes (only calculated for equipment, not a complete damage reduction, 20% does not mean a 20% reduction in total damage)**

• **Level 40 (Max Attributes 420)**
• Damage multiplier reduced from X 86 to X 63.86
• Damage reduction increased from 82.17% to 92.06%
• **Level 30 (Max Attributes 351)**
• Damage multiplier reduced from X 36.0 …